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Walmart Lowers their Shipping Requirements, but their Suppliers Still Struggle

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart fines suppliers whose goods arrive late or who have not shipped everything that they committed to ship. Walmart is not the only big retailer with OTIF requirements, but as the world’s largest retailer, and a company with stringent requirements , Walmart’s OTIF requirements are top of mind for consumer goods companies.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. This is one of the company’s first steps to their digital transformation in shipping.

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Pharma companies will increasingly take cues from retail and consumer goods….why?

The Network Effect

If you want to know ahead of time the changes awaiting the pharmaceuticals supply chain it is useful to extrapolate experiences from the consumer and retail sectors, which were dealing with the same trends and pressures long before pharmaceuticals (for example, the proliferation of distribution channels).

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Better Direct Import Replenishment Planning for Consumer Goods Brands

Alloy

This process saves on domestic warehousing and reduces costs to vendors, which reduces costs to retailers. Products are stored in a domestic warehouse before being shipped on to the retailer’s DC. For example, Walmart might directly import two shipping containers of a consumer goods company’s top 10 best performing SKUs.

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Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap

Logistics Viewpoints

But there is a technology gap between gleaming new automated facilities and tens of thousands of existing warehouses and distribution centers that pre-date the warehouse building boom of the past 5-10 years. Modular Vs. Monolithic Warehouse Systems. Distribution Disrupted. DCs were not built for change.

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5 Reasons to Leave Your 3PL with Shane Hanson

The Logistics of Logistics

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is the Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics, a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors.

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Supply Chain Control Layer Technology Applied in Consumer Products Goods

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides the second in a four-part series of market education postings addressing the evolving use of Cloud based control layer technology platforms applied to warehousing and customer fulfillment processes.